Quotes About Opportunity

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

The world is your school.

Life is too short to do anything for one's self that one can pay others to do for one" W Somerset Maugham, British novelist

For the children and youth in poverty from diverse cultural backgrounds who attend urban schools, having effective teachers is a matter of life and death. These children have no life options for achieving decent lives other than by experiencing success in school … Because it generates extremely high levels of emotional intensity, it [teaching in an urban school system] is more akin to being an air traffic controller than being a 'schoolteacher'.

Micro fortunes were made every day at Port Shannon. And more were lost.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

Therefore no one who sees the iconoclasts raging thus against wood and stone should doubt that there is a spirit hidden in them which is death-dealing, not life-giving, and which at the first opportunity will also kill men, just as some of them have begun to teach.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

La plupart des sports leur paraissent avant tout comme des opportunités, sous couvert de compétition, de pratiquer le sadomasochisme, la torture, l'humiliation.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

The first is extreme flexibility which will enable one to take advantage of fleeting opportunities. Said Sun Tzu, "an army is like water which adapts itself to the configuration of the ground.

The combination of modern anti-discrimination laws, on the one hand, and women's reluctance to pull up their sleeves, on the other, can lead to strange results. Thus, whereas 80 percent of all clerks in the United States are women, the one "clerical" job that involves substantial outdoor walking — mail delivery — is done almost entirely by men.[401

If you lived in the wild, you'd need to know how to make fire to survive. But you live in an urban world, and you need to make money. That means you need a job, and the only way to get a job is by turning a job interview into a job offer.

Something good always came out of tragedy. He had heard that many times and now he knew it was true. God had given him a second chance at life and he was going to grab it with both hands.

eventually you regretted the things you hadn't done as much as the things you had.

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

Life at its longest is short, make the most of it while you still can.' How true that was.

It was there to be used because time past could never be regained. And time did pass, excruciatingly slowly at times but it did pass, and you could let it pass you by or use it to your own benefit.

Life's a big present from God but what you do with it is up to you. You get one crack at it, it's not a dress rehearsal as me mother used to say.

Life is what you make it,

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.